Notes and Recollections
Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940 intellectual autobiography. This work reveals how Mises developed his theories, wrote his books, lectured, and taught. It describes his life in Vienna and the people with whom he worked. He also discusses his activities as an adviser to Austrian government officials and his frustrations in attempting to keep inflation and communist and Nazi ideas from destroying the Austrian economy.
The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics is an essay that reveals Mises's intellectual development in the context of the origins of the Austrian School. Ludwig von Mises explains his viewpoint that modern economics is based on subjective value and marginal-utility theory separated him from classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. A part autobiography, this book hinges on Mises's intellectual development and his role in the realm of social and economic thought. Table of Contents Preface: Bettina Bien Greaves Foreword: Margit von Mises Historicism Etatism The Austrian Problem First Writings on the Theory of Money First World War With the Chamber of Commerce My Teaching Activities in Vienna Scientific Work in Germany Further Inquiries into Indirect Exchange Systems of Social Cooperation Epistemological Studies My Teachings in Geneva The Struggle of Austria's Survival Postscript Hans F. Sennholz The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics I. Carl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics II. The Conflict with the German Historical School III. The Place of the Austrian School of Economics in the Evolution of economics